Abstract
Morsing, J., S. I. Frandsen, H. Vejre, and K. Raulund-Rasmussen. 2013. Do the principles of ecological restoration cover EU LIFE Nature cofunded projects in Denmark? Ecology and Society 18(4): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05847-180415
Highlights
Ecological restoration has become more and more frequent in nature management around the world (e.g., Suding 2011)
In Denmark, restoration has been implemented for decades, and the LIFE Nature program has contributed to several large-scale projects
The results indicated that nature policy in Denmark and the LIFE Nature program are based on a control paradigm, with the focus on structures rather than on processes
Summary
Ecological restoration has become more and more frequent in nature management around the world (e.g., Suding 2011). Ecological restoration has been practiced for decades, but attempts to formalize and define the concept have emerged only gradually in scientific communities. As a milestone in this effort, the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER) published a primer in 2004 that defines ecological restoration as “the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed” (SER 2004). Parallel to this condensed definition, the primer presents nine descriptive attributes of ecological restoration, followed by a comprehensive introduction to the concept, for example, a glossary and a discussion of ecological restoration in comparison to related practices. Though the primer has been disputed, e.g., by Davis and Slobodkin (2004) and Winterhalder et al (2004), it represents a thoroughly prepared approach, and has been used as a tool to evaluate restoration projects (e.g., Ruiz-Jaen and Aide 2005)
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